" But just because you feel yourself responsible, you exaggerate it, I am afraid," she said.

" Her position in the world is difficult, I can well understand.

" "In the world it is hell!" he brought out quickly, frowning darkly.

" You can't imagine moral sufferings greater than what she went through in Petersburg in that fortnight...and I beg you to believe it.

" "Yes, but here, so long as neither Anna...nor you miss society..." "Society!" he said contemptuously, "how could I miss society?" "So far--and it may be so always--you are happy and at peace.